A Lagos High Court has ordered a social media celebrity, Martins Vincent Otse, verydarkman to pay a cost of N200,000 as the court dismissed the preliminary objections he filed against the N1,000,000,000.00 (One Billion Naira ) defamation suits by human rights lawyer, Mr Femi Falana, SAN and his son, Mr Folarin Falana, aka Falz who accused him of character defamation contained in the Defendant's video publication of September 24, 2024, on his Instagram.
Justice F. A. Azeez who delivered rulings in the preliminary objections filed by VDM against the two suits filed by the duo of Femi Falana and Folarin Falana, also ordered him to pay 100,000 each for Femi Falana's and Folarin Falana's suit.
Justice Azeez also directed the defendant to immediately file his defence to the two suits brought against him by the Claimants.
The Claimants, Falana, SAN and his son, Folarin in the two different suits have dragged the social media influencer to court accusing him of character assassination, stating that he should purge himself of the accusations by apologising and refrain from further publications.
They also asked the social media influencer to pay the sum of N500,000,000.00 (Five Hundred Million Naira Only) each, amounting to One Billion Naira for defamation of character contained in the Defendant's video publication of September 24, 2024, on his Instagram handle@verydarkblackman.
Consequently, the court struck out the Preliminary objection.
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